Edwin Medina v. J.P. Keane

PRATT, Circuit Judge:

Respondent-appellant J.P. Keane appeals from a judgment entered in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Vincent L. Broderick, Judge, granting petitioner-appellee Edwin Medina’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The district court held that a post-arrest statement made by Medina was elicited in violation of his Miranda rights, Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 86 S.Ct. 1602, 16 L.Ed.2d 694 (1966), and that the admission of the statement at Medina’s trial was not harmless error. The state argues on this…